1st Edition
Moral Obligations Action, Intention, and Valuation
Edited By Thomas E. Wren
Copyright 2010
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call ""meta-ethics"": the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts like ""right"" and ""obligatory,"" have significance and power over us. The meta-ethical part of this book is preceded by a discussion of action, in... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction to the Transaction Edition CHAPTER 1. ACTION 1. The Standpoint of the Agent 2. The Primacy of Action 3. Self and Other 4. A Taxonomy of Action 5. Transitive, Intransitive, and Static Actions CHAPTER 2. INTENTION 1. The Descriptions of an Action 2. Levels of Intention 3. The Tacit Side of Intention 4. The Vertical, Forward, and Lateral Dimensions CHAPTER 3. VALUATION 1. The Greek Debate 2. Medieval Conceptions of Value 3. The Naturalistic Fallacy 4. Prescriptivism 5. Descriptivism CHAPTER 4. OBLIGATION 1. Three Preparatory Distinctions 2. Moral Urgency and Other Oughts 3. Why Be Moral? 4. The Necessity of Interagency CHAPTER 5: THE MORAL COMMUNITY 1. The Rightness of Rules 2. Self-Imposed Heteronomy 3. Three Conceptions of Harmony CHAPTER 6: THE MORAL DOMAIN 1. The Model 2. Applied Geometry 3. Some Ongoing Discussions of Moral Agency INDEX
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Carol Harding
